sidux 2025.2 xfxe wavelan plugin installation help

julian516

Unlike any other distribution I have used or tested, sidux 2025.2-xfce (amd-64) gives no indication on the desktop that a successful wireless connection has been made. In fact ceni works very well, but the only way I have found to know that I am connected to my network is to open my browser and try to load a page. Something like a Network Manager or wicd icon is nowhere to be seen.

I have located xfce-wavelan-plugin, unzipped, untarred and taken a look at the wavelan folder. Suffice it to say the installation process appears arcane, at least to this newcomer. If I am reading the installation directions corrrectly I must first compile wavelan and then do the installation?

I surely would like to hear from someone who actually has done this before I plunge in. Are there rocks in this pond? Am I going to have to download and install a compiler? If so is gcc the weapon of choice?

Wavelan is not crucial for my system, but I would like to learn how to do an installation such as this. I surely would appreciate a helping hand from someone who has done it.

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tlmiller · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2025 7:15 pm Post subject:

wicd should add an icon if you install it. I used to use xfce sidux and unless they've changed it in Debian since then, wicd does add an icon. Do you have wicd installed (I suggest wicd over networkmanager because networkmanager is horribly unstable IMO in Debian unstable, even though it is actually much more full featured than wicd).

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julian516 · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2025 8:35 pm Post subject:

Thank you! I do not have wicd installed and I am thinking of doing so. I have used it in my earlier versions of Ubuntu and it worked very well.

BTW, much to my embarrasment I discovered after posting that I could add wavelan by simply right-clicking on the xfce bar at the bottom of the page and using "Add New Items."

GRONK!

Clue: Synaptic, which I had installed earlier, returned an indication that wavelan was already installed on my system. That was odd because I could not find it and a terminal would not start it, at least with any name variation I used. Apparently this is as simple as a right-click in the apropriate place. Embarassed

Next time we do a bit more investigating!

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tlmiller · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2025 9:03 pm Post subject:

Yeah, never actually used wavelan myself since I use wicd on everything that I can. Does it allow you to manage, or just monitors?

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julian516 · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2025 11:50 pm Post subject:

It is strictly a monitor, Tim, but I thought all I needed was something to tell me I was connected without having to open the browser. I suppose it all goes back to the fact that I got used to seeing Network Manager on my Gnome desktops!

In most every respect sidux is running nicely, though I am still getting to know it and xfce. I had used xfce a bit and liked it, but this is as long as I have used it on a daily basis. Seems to be fine.

My remaining challenge is to get a better, which is to say non-free, nvidia driver loaded on this machine. Coward that I am, anything that might sabotage xorg makes me nervous!

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tlmiller · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2025 1:49 am Post subject:

download the smxi/sgfxi scripts. MAkes it SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much easier. I swear by sgfxi on all my debian installs, whether Debian Squeeze, Debian Sid, Sidux, Dreamlinux, Mepis, or what. sgfxi is just SOOOOOOOOO nicely done for installing nvidia drivers correctly.

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julian516 · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2025 12:01 pm Post subject:

Thank you sir! masinick suggested smxi and I have looked at it but not used it. I think I am about to go there and check your suggestions!

If it will gt me to dry land on the other side of the nvidia swamp I am for it.

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